“Like watching paint dry” A new 24-hour television broadcast will let viewers in Finland watch concrete dry in real time. The concept combines construction science and slow television. A concrete slab has been cast with embedded moisture and temperature sensors. Betonilive joins a growing list of popular livestreams in Finland, such as Pentulive (puppy cam) →
Bad design refers to design that fails to meet user needs effectively which results in a poor user experience. Maggie Weber has made a set of interesting and funny Bad Design videos. Here are links to some of them: Fonts matter! https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15sGYFDFFi/ Who designed this? https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14uCkmwfLp/ What the sign says https://www.facebook.com/share/r/161vrobxDo/ Don’t buy AI https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19npdqJsKL/ →
Bad design: Christmas https://youtu.be/lhOhXLBC1_A?si=OWBHd5Yaf34WUzS7 →
Audio signal panning →
The Hacker Test was an old test of how much of a ‘hacker’ (as in ‘nerd’, not ‘cracker’) you are. Since it came out in 1990, almost all of the questions are obsolete. That makes it a really neat historical document of what people considered cool at the time. Hacker Test History https://github.com/hwayne/hacker-test-history →
I asked SUNO AI to generate cyber-security metal music. It produced those. Firewall Fury https://suno.com/song/337e5924-aabf-4286-a74d-2e793f20d236 Firewall Fury https://suno.com/song/a43e82ed-fcf6-4404-9481-a55a032f8ec8 metalcore intense relentless [Verse] Bytes and codes collide Digital wasteland Intruders seek to harm Defensive stand! [Verse 2] Viruses unleashed Malware on the prowl Encrypted wrath Hear our scowls! [Chorus] Firewall fury In the cyber night Data →
Useless Use of Cat Award https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award Contents: Useless Use of cat Useless Use of kill -9 Useless Use of echo Useless Use of ls * Useless Use of wc -l Useless Use of grep | awk Useless Use of Backticks Useless Use of test →
A suitable warning label to put to FOH →
He’s making a table He’s checking it twice SELECT * FROM List WHERE behaviour = ‘Nice’ SQL clause is coming to town Source: https://m.facebook.com/groups/it.humor.and.memes/permalink/7115605828465140/ Related XKCD classic https://xkcd.com/838/ →
ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING K1 J41 Adam Ruins Everything Corrects ITSELF! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ijI_kGG1eg..7 Adam Ruins Everything – Why “Moderate Drinking” isn’t Really Good for You | truTV https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sdKlRYha_Yc →